Richmond Police Department (California)
| Richmond Police Department | |
|---|---|
| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1910 |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | City of Richmond in the state of California, United States |
| Population | 103,464 |
| General nature | |
| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | 1701 Regatta Blvd. |
| Agency executive | Chris Magnus, Chief |
| Website | |
| Richmond Police Website | |
| Footnotes | |
| * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The Richmond Police Department or RPD is a public safety and law enforcement agency founded in 1910 that is in charge of protecting and safeguarding the city of Richmond, California. The city has struggled with serious violent crime for decades and is often described as crime ridden and as one of the "rougher" parts of the San Francisco Bay Area; in fact, in 2010 the city was the sixth most dangerous in the nation.
The department was founded in 1910 and celebrated its hundredth anniversary in 2010.
In 2009 a female student at Richmond High School was brutally gang raped by half a dozen men and boys while dozens more looked on and took photographs. The police department came under national scrutiny for its investigation and the abhorrent acts that took place.
In 2011 the force came under scrutiny due to a federal probe investigating the hiring of two of the city's "explorers" (members of a Junior Police program) by a private security firm operated by the police officers that illegally armed the young men and sent them to patrol city streets. The FBI is investigating the case, which concerns events that occurred from 2004 to 2011. The news has reported that once the former explorers came through with their allegations that their former mentors hired prostitutes or strippers into attempting to coax them into driving drunk in order to jail them for DUI as retaliation.
Richmond Police Department Police Activities League (PAL) is an organization created by the department as part of its community policing efforts to reduce crime and build trust with the community. It also serves to get kids off the streets and to expose them to positive outlets such as sports and good male role models. The PAL maintains an annual "Shop With A Cop" event and in 2011 that meant a $110 per child shopping spree to the Target store in the Macdonald 80 Shopping Center. The kids are transported in cop cars and limousines and are allowed to pick any items they want. The funding is primarily from officer's own pockets, with a 10% boost and sales tax covered by Target this particular year.
The department's main police station is located at in the Marina Bay District and was recently renovated and is LEED certified.
The department has implemented gunfire sensor technology. The system of strategically placed acoustic sensors can detect the sounds of cocking, triggers, shooting, and rounds hitting the ground in addition to geolocating the direction from where it came.
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